The assertion is getting louder: President Obama is a socialist, a wealth-redistributing wolf in Democrat's clothing gnawing at America's entrepreneurial spirit.

It's easy to buy "Obama is a socialist" bumper stickers on the Internet. Political commentator Dick Morris said, in a column circulated on GOPUSA.com, that conservatives are "enraged at Barack Obama's socialism and radicalism." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich titled his new book "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine."

Oooookay... Socialist? Proof? Hmmm.. I bet FReepers could offer some. Here is a few tidbits to start...

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Socialized Medicine Took over Two of our major car companies Took over the student loan industry Has at least 34 former or current members of the Democratic Socialists of America or Communist Party who work in the White House for him

They don’t recognize him as a socialist because they refuse to admit the reality that modern American liberalism is socialism. They prefer to see themselves as in line with earlier classical liberal ideals, rather than how they have kept the name, but thrown out all that classical liberalism stood for. Those classical liberals are the modern conservatives and libertarians.

Bad analogy. You buy a pizza and someone from the government comes to your house and takes half of your pizza and gives it to your neighbor. If I want to share my pizza, I can. The government shouldn’t make me.

Good list. I think for Freepers is simply a matter of deciding what brand of socialism. Many of us contend that he behaves like a Nazi, since he has used his bullying tactics to heavily control industry; e.g., forcing the banks to take stimulus funds and extorting funds from BP. The majority want to label him a Communist due to actions like taking over student loans and health industry.

Perhaps we should coin a new label which combines both? I propose Communazi!

"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money," Sen. Obama said. "If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?"

I would try but the government will step in and demand that all the people get a slice and some folks are far more deserving than either my friend or myself so we'll be left starving as the resturant fills with uninvited unpaying diners who will eat my pizza.

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posted on 07/01/2010 12:49:59 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

I would try but the government will step in and demand that all the people get a slice and some folks are far more deserving than either my friend or myself so we'll be left starving as the resturant fills with uninvited unpaying diners who will eat my pizza.

The recipient would also be audited and taxed for not declaring this "gift".

Waddles like a duck, has feathers like a duck, has a flat beak like a duck, has flat feet like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs around with ducks, hmm, nope couldn’t be a duck, must be a duck billed platypus...

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posted on 07/01/2010 12:52:40 PM PDT
by oneolcop
(Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)

Socialism is just a pretty picture that fascists and communists paint when they want to enslave the gullible public who are too lazy or haven't figured yet out how to make it in a capitalistic environment.

They play word games with the definition of socialist, they point out little details and differences of degree as proof that it is not socialism, but down at the rotten stinking bottom it is unadulterated marxism.

The differences between German national socialism and Italian fascism as compared to Marxism are irrelevant from my level of view, they all consist of a boot planted firmly on my neck. A blend of all three won't be any different.

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posted on 07/01/2010 12:54:06 PM PDT
by SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)

No...he's just a misunderstood adolescent with a chip on his shoulder who thinks his calling from allah is to take from the haves and redistribute to the "moocher" class in a round-robin plan to keep himself re-elected.

Proof? Well, this late in the game, any dumb fu** that needs proof that oblammer is a socialist, hasn't been paying attention.

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posted on 07/01/2010 12:56:18 PM PDT
by FrankR
( If we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants win, and we're enslaved.)

The paying diner and his friend will eventually walk out of the resturant and the resturant will eventually close. Then the uninvited and unpaying diners will start to get hungry and angry. The first person they’ll blame is the greedy resturant owner who was driven to bankruptcy and then they’ll turn on the former paying diner.

In the end the freeloaders will turn on each other because that’s all that will be left.

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posted on 07/01/2010 12:57:05 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

This is curious and bizarre. A reader, Jane, conducted some Google searches related to the Obamas Chicago home on Greenwood Avenue, and discovered the following, which I verified with my own searches, and documented with screenshots at approximately 2:30 PM ET on 12/17/08:

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